2019 Osher/Dover #5 Creating the Future

Session Five: Creating the Future
Music: Bruce Springsteen, "Remember When the Music," Link to music

Essential Questions:

• How can a society transform itself to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
• What historical precedents are there for transformative systemic change?
• What will it take to initiate the changes necessary to stabilize the climate?
• How important is the role of people power to create political change?
• Is there a comparison between Civil Rights and Climate Rights? 

Gathering:  "A way to reduce CO2 emissions that I think will happen is..."

Rick's Rap:

Video:
The Next System Project, link to video

Video: Greta Thunberg, TEDx Talk, Stockholm, November 2018 Link to Video

Visitors:  Charlie Garbow,  Jennifer DeMooy, Lisa Locke, John Sykes, Ted Speckler

Exercise: Creating a 100% Renewable Future  

Closing:  "Something that I learned today..."

Readings:  
 "We literally need to declare war on climate change," Bill McKibben, New Republic, August 15, 2016
Resources:
David Brooks, "A Nation of Weavers," NYTimes,  2/18/19 Link to Article

Lisa Sullivan, "Eyes on the Prize," News Journal, 1/21/19 link to article

Bill McKibben, "How the Active Many can Overcome the Ruthless Few," The Nation, 11/30/16
Link to Article

Bill McKibben, "Do the Math," 350.org, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsIfokifwSodebrief

"We do need hope—of course, we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.", Greta Thunberg, Tedx Talk Stockholm, 2018